DBA Jobs in the East of England

Database Administrator
England > East of England

The median Database Administrator salary in the East of England is £57,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 200 179 234
Rank change year-on-year -21 +55 -55
Permanent jobs requiring a DBA 24 46 45
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.39% 0.89% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 1.06% 0.72%
Number of salaries quoted 17 23 32
10th Percentile £36,750 £27,500 £36,881
25th Percentile £52,500 £46,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% +15.79% +26.67%
75th Percentile £61,250 £57,500 £54,063
90th Percentile - - £66,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% +4.76% +5.00%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
East of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 5,800 4,355 6,221
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 93.91% 84.04% 93.39%
Number of salaries quoted 4,430 2,201 2,891
10th Percentile £25,809 £26,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £31,250 £36,356 £35,955
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £63,213 £67,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £53,000 £60,800 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.83% +1.33% +9.09%

DBA
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured DBA in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for DBA in the East of England

DBA
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing DBA in the East of England.

Salary trend for DBA in the East of England

DBA
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing DBA in the East of England over the 6 months to 19 May 2024.

Salary histogram for DBA in the East of England

DBA
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing DBA within the East of England region over the 6 months to 19 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Essex +3 6 £57,500 +91.67% 3
Hertfordshire -12 6 £48,750 -11.36% 2
Cambridgeshire +16 4 £57,500 +53.33%
Bedfordshire +32 3 £30,000 - 1
Norfolk - 3 £57,500 - 1
Suffolk -9 2 £57,500 +15.00%
DBA
England

DBA Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 19 May 2024, DBA job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the East of England region featuring DBA in the job title.

1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 15 (62.50%) Azure
3 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
4 11 (45.83%) Power BI
4 11 (45.83%) Power Platform
4 11 (45.83%) SQL Server
4 11 (45.83%) Business Intelligence
4 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
4 11 (45.83%) Microsoft Certification
5 10 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
5 10 (41.67%) High Availability
5 10 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
6 9 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
6 9 (37.50%) VMS
6 9 (37.50%) T-SQL
6 9 (37.50%) Broadband
6 9 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
6 9 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.83%) Oracle Database
8 5 (20.83%) Capacity Planning
8 5 (20.83%) Ansible
8 5 (20.83%) PL/SQL
8 5 (20.83%) Oracle
9 4 (16.67%) MySQL
9 4 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
9 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
9 4 (16.67%) Statistics
9 4 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity

DBA Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 2 (8.33%) OpenEdge
2 1 (4.17%) Apache
2 1 (4.17%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 15 (62.50%) Azure
2 11 (45.83%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (37.50%) Broadband
2 1 (4.17%) Firewall
2 1 (4.17%) PSTN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (45.83%) Power BI
1 11 (45.83%) SQL Server
2 9 (37.50%) Azure SQL Database
3 5 (20.83%) Oracle Database
4 4 (16.67%) MySQL
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (8.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 11g
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle Database 12c
6 1 (4.17%) Oracle9i Database
6 1 (4.17%) OrientDB
6 1 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Git
1 1 (4.17%) JIRA
General
1 13 (54.17%) Social Skills
2 4 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (16.67%) Pharmaceutical
3 2 (8.33%) Billing
3 2 (8.33%) Finance
3 2 (8.33%) Law
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) J2EE
1 1 (4.17%) Oracle GoldenGate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 3 (12.50%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.17%) Clustering
Operating Systems
1 9 (37.50%) VMS
2 1 (4.17%) Linux
2 1 (4.17%) Solaris
2 1 (4.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (45.83%) Business Intelligence
2 10 (41.67%) Disaster Recovery
2 10 (41.67%) High Availability
2 10 (41.67%) Performance Tuning
3 9 (37.50%) Collaborative Working
4 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (20.83%) Capacity Planning
6 4 (16.67%) Commercialisation
6 4 (16.67%) Customer Service
6 4 (16.67%) Mentoring
6 4 (16.67%) Site Reliability Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Statistics
7 2 (8.33%) ITIL
7 2 (8.33%) Migration
7 2 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
8 1 (4.17%) Agile
8 1 (4.17%) CI/CD
8 1 (4.17%) ITSM
8 1 (4.17%) Network Planning
8 1 (4.17%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (66.67%) SQL
2 9 (37.50%) T-SQL
3 5 (20.83%) PL/SQL
4 1 (4.17%) C++
4 1 (4.17%) ProC
Qualifications
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft Certification
2 2 (8.33%) DBS Check
2 2 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 2 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
System Software
1 9 (37.50%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 5 (20.83%) Ansible
2 1 (4.17%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
Vendors
1 11 (45.83%) Microsoft
2 5 (20.83%) Oracle
3 2 (8.33%) Civica
3 2 (8.33%) Progress
4 1 (4.17%) BT
4 1 (4.17%) Cisco
4 1 (4.17%) Dell
4 1 (4.17%) Dynatrace
4 1 (4.17%) HP
4 1 (4.17%) Qualys
4 1 (4.17%) ServiceNow